Holiday Ads For the Jaded
      
      
      
      
      
        
        
          By AAN Staff
        
        
      
      
        december  1, 2003  08:17 am
      
      
      
      
            
      
        
      
      
        
          Hoping to avoid a Christmas as blue as the past 
few, retailers and marketers are experimenting 
with ambitiously novel ways to woo consumers. 
Along with traditional trappings like Santa's 
workshops, decorated store windows and teddy 
bears as gifts with purchases, shoppers will see 
an assortment of unconventional campaigns, all 
intended to encourage the impulse to buy among 
those bored with or tired of holiday chestnuts 
(literal and figurative).